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Pupil attendance
A collection of statistics on pupil attendance and pupil absence in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools in England. For the latest pupil attendance data, the Department of Education (DfE) publishes a fortnightly release. There are also yearly statistics for:
- pupil absence autumn term release – since 2009
- pupil absence autumn and spring term combined release – since 2009-10
- pupil absence full year release – since 2009-10
Each release has information on the levels of overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded schools. It includes:
- reasons for absence
- absence by pupil characteristic
- rates of persistent and severe absence
The data since 2020 is available on the DfE’s education statistics explorer. Here you can get statistical summaries, create your own data tables, browse a data catalogue and download all the data as a zip file.
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